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Show ' HE NEVER EVEN TOOK AIM (But the Tyro at Hunting Brought' Down Two Birds, and 8hot No More. I "Only once In my life did 1 ever do any shooting." said a traveling man, talking to a group In the, cafe Iof ono of the big New York hotels, "and that once I made a real hit It was In a western town to which my trip had carried me, and the natives had arranged a prairlo chicken hunt for tho following dny. Of course 1 waa Invited. I protested that I was , out of practice, but thoy Insisted that I go .along, and some one furnished I gun for my use. ' "As the only stranger In the party, they let me go ahead, following the dogs closely 1 didn't even know I what a prairie chicken looked like; whether thoy would run nlong the I ground or fly. Suddenly I heard a tromendous whirr, the sound, as I came to know, of tho birds taking wing. So excited was I that, without raising the gun to ray shoulder, I 1 pulled tho trigger, 'Rang!' went the Run, and two of the birds fluttered I slowly to tho ground. '"He never oven took nlm, shouted I one of the hunters, and my reputation I was mudo. Thereafter I rested on my laurels, not attempting another I shot throughout the day, or ever. since." I |